a tasty little blog about southern baking
Posted in Desserts on May 11th, 2012
CAROLINE!!!!! Walker hosted the drawing this morning before school with the help of his trusty sidekick Nemo (or the lazy dog on the floor). Thank you all so much for entering the contest, and not to worry, because you still have two more chances to win! We will be doing another cake for Father’s Day [...]
Posted in Desserts on May 8th, 2012
We went to two weddings this weekend, and maybe that is not a crazy thing, but one of them was in Charleston and the other was in Arkansas. It felt a little crazy to me. The first wedding was on Saturday morning out on Sullivans Island. My very dear friend Kendall married a fantastic guy [...]
This past Friday, I finally tracked down Kim Nelson of Daisy Cakes- she was in Nashville, TN looking at a new distribution company for her cakes and very generously took the time to talk to me. A little background if you haven’t yet heard of Kim Nelson and Daisy Cakes because the way she is [...]
Posted in Desserts on Apr 6th, 2012
It was over 90 degrees in Charleston yesterday. It is 50 degrees today. Other than the obvious answer of a cold front, how does that happen? I feel like it is colder Easter weekend than it was for Christmas. The one good thing about the cold. I was supposed to go to the Masters today [...]
Posted in Desserts on Apr 2nd, 2012
This is Alice Boffin Toft’s Bakery. I am not sure where or when we got this, but as a child, this was a favorite. It was my sister’s, and while she allowed me to play with it, I was extremely jealous, so for a birthday, I got a vegetable cart which you will see in [...]
Posted in Desserts on Mar 21st, 2012
We got back from Vail last night to 80 degree weather- a very welcome change despite the fact that I was still wearing my wool socks and my feet almost melted off walking to the car. Vail was amazing! I have not been to Colorado in over 20 years and never in the winter, and [...]
Posted in Desserts on Feb 8th, 2012
I admit that I am pretty slow to the game when it comes to new social media technology. I am terrified of this new facebook layout and won’t even look at friends pages that have the new layout because I don’t understand it. I don’t twitter or tweet or whatever you call it even though [...]
I made Red Velvet Whoopie Pies last night to take as dessert to a dinner party. The recipe was very simple recipe for the red velvet part- a box of cake mix, eggs, water and oil. I made two different fillers, a marshmallow and a cream cheese icing. Everything went very well, and they looked [...]
Posted in Desserts on Jan 17th, 2012
I love The Local Palate (www.localpalatemag.com), the new cooking/food magazine in Charleston. Yesterday, they put up a link to all of their recipes http://www.localpalatemag.com/recipes.html, and I tried the Peanut Butter Pie recipe. You know those days in the kitchen where everything goes wrong- you drop eggs on the floor, you burn butter, your flour explodes [...]
Posted in Desserts on Nov 28th, 2011
I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I am still so full, but it was all worth it. I remade a lot of recipes that I have put on this blog this past week for family members that I have not seen in a while. We started off on Wednesday night having my parents, all of [...]
